{"id":1486,"date":"2025-10-14T15:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:02:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:02:01","slug":"narfe-denounces-firings-and-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/2025\/10\/14\/narfe-denounces-firings-and-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"NARFE Denounces Firings and Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/narfe-denounces-illegal-firing-of-federal-workers-due-to-lapse-in-appropriations\/?_zs=rk6mm&amp;_zl=XtTV3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE Denounces Illegal Firing of Federal Workers Due to Lapse in Appropriations<\/strong><\/a><br>\nIn response to the reports of federal agencies issuing reduction-in-force (RIF) notices to federal employees impacted by a lapse in appropriations, NARFE National President William Shackelford issued the following statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/federal-employees-dc-agencies-layoffs-dc-hhs-treasury-reduction-shutdown-union-health-human-republicans-democrats-political-communication-national-active-washington-coungress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Federal employees face uncertainty as agencies begin layoffs as shutdown lingers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br>\nABC7 News: *Broadcast interview with John Hatton, NARFE staff vice president of policy and programs<br>\nThe White House confirmed Friday that layoffs are underway across federal agencies, marking a new escalation in the ongoing government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedsmith.com\/2025\/10\/10\/layoffs-underway-as-shutdown-drags-on\/?fbclid=IwdGRjcANWlnxjbGNrA1ZUSGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEer1Fht3DXPCV92XF_3vEQqipG9asEJLsKEYukrvteBbVDtSNcq3gx2XCpHRg_aem_QhpLJFUVvHxMxhPK0taMmQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Layoffs Underway as Shutdown Drags On<\/strong><\/a><br>\nFedSmith: *Article quotes William Shackelford, NARFE national president<br>\nThe Trump administration has begun the process of laying off federal employees amid the ongoing government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE President and staff vice president of policy and programs addresses Firings and Layoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/10\/2025-10-14-Advocacy-Puzzle.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}